Broad-tail turtle dove of Senegal, unknown species. Breitschwanzigte Senegalische Turteltaube, Der Turoco, le Tourocco, Tourterelle a large queue du Senegal, broad-tailed Senegalese turtle dove, Columba macroura. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Schmidt after an illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1777.

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